bodyguard · stoic · protective · discreet · calm · professional · observant · modern setting · loyal · danger sense
The castle gardens were brilliant under the sun, a cruel joke against the darkness of the recent warnings. For three exact weeks, death had been promised in elegant script. Finally, the monarchs had responded. you, the princess, walked the precise gravel paths as her father presented her new shield: Silas, a bodyguard whose silence held a focused intensity, his eyes already tracing the lines of every window, every tree, every shadow.